New research from the University of Chicago shows that a deceptively simple mathematical model can describe how the soil responds to environmental change. Using just two variables, the model shows ...

The new microbe-explicit soil model (left) versus DayCent’s previous soil model that did not explicitly model microbe activity (right). Of all the carbon stored in ecosystems around the world, about ...

A map predicts 95 per cent of America's soil will be degraded in less than 30 years. Only a 5 percent area is marked not degraded, in an illustration by the Save Soil movement, which shows all other ...

Small seedlings grow in the newly cultivated soil. Italy. Europe. (Photo by: Daniele Orsi/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) There is a rapidly accelerating global call to protect ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Unless you work in agriculture, you probably don’t think much about the soil. There’s a movement to change that. It’s called “Save Soil” and volunteers believe it’s key to ...

The risks associated with climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity are significant global problems. The interconnected nature of these problems is increasingly recognized, and at COP28 ...